Investment in capital equipment slowed in the second quarter but recent orders data signal an improvement in the second half.

When is a bullish or a bearish trend likely to set in and how will that affect the market?

MAJOR ECONOMIC INDICATORS

The data can be viewed online using Java and is accessed from: Apart from containing a comprehensive verbal economic report plus tables of each country and the EU as a whole, there is a comprehensive statistical annex with 62 tables of time series data, plus forecasts for the next one or two years. Index of Economic Forecasts Note that, with large PDF files such as this, it is often much quicker to save the file first and then to open it in the Adobe Acrobat Reader.

To save the file, right click the link and go to Save Target As It contains tables with macroeconomic data for each of the EU28 countries, the applicant countries such as Turkey and the former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia , the euro area the current 19 and the previous 12 , the 15 EU countries that were members prior to and also the USA and Japan. It can be downloaded as a PDF file from the following: Then either left click on the link to download the PDF file, or right click to save it.

It may be useful to know how to import a table from PDF into Excel. Also, with an Excel file containing many rows or columns, it may be useful to keep the header rows or columns of the spreadsheet static while the rest of the figures can be moved with the scroll bar or mouse wheel. Business and Consumer Surveys The European Economy site also contains monthly business and consumer surveys.

These come in two separate sets: You can access the latest ones here: Business and Consumer Surveys: Latest You can also access longer time series. Gross Domestic Product GDP It indicates the economic growth of a country, and it is determined by product output, income and expenditure. GDB is often correlated with the living standard. It is the market value of all services and goods produced in a country during a certain time period.

Gross Domestic Product Deflator A measure of price levels for all goods and services in an economy. The use of the deflator helps you calculate the difference between nominal and real GDP.

Industrial Production IP An indicator for the changes in output in the industrial sector e. It indicates the industrial capacity of a country.

The IPCU encourages buying or selling in certain industries. International Trade trade balance It measures the difference imports vs exports of all goods and services. Changes in imports and exports, together with the level of the international trade balance, indicate market trends. It provides assessment of the current and upcoming economic climate in Germany and Europe. It sums up the survey of over companies in all US states, and it calculates data of production, new orders, and employment.

It is also used to forecast future levels of economic activity. Producer Price Index PPI A frequently used economic indicator that measures the average changes in selling prices received by domestic producers in manufacturing, mining, electric utility, and agriculture.

PMI over 50 usually indicates an expanding economy, while anything below 50 indicates economic contraction. As a timely indicator of broad consumer spending patterns, it can be used to assess the immediate direction of an economy.

It considerably affects currency rates and stocks, and as such, it is considered a major financial indicator in Japan. Unemployment Rate The percentage of unemployed people, measured by the ratio of individuals who are out of work and who are willing and able to work as opposed to the total number of individuals in the work force.

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